“11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013

“Nearly half of U.S. companies are reluctant to hire full-time employees because of the ACA. One in five firms indicates they are likely to hire fewer employees, and another one in 10 may lay off current employees in response to the law.

Other firms will shift toward part-time workers. More than 40 percent of CFOs say their companies will consider switching some jobs to less than 30 hours per week or targeting part-time workers for future employment.”…Duke University Fuqua School of Business December 11, 2013

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”…George Orwell, “1984″

George Orwell painted a picture of what he had seen from totalitarian regimes and what he envisioned could come. He understated what we experience today.

From “1984.”

“Winston dialled ‘back numbers’ on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes’ delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify. For example, it appeared from The Times of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa. As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech, in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. Or again, The Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a ‘categorical pledge’ were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of The Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.

But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at one-hundred-and-forty-five million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than one-hundred-and-forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.”

From Zero Hedge February 9, 2014.

“Much has been said about the January Non-farm payrolls number, which rose by 113K on expectations of a 180K increase, most of which has been focused on the US atmospheric conditions during the winter. There is a problem with those numbers: they don’t really exist (as for the non-impact of “the weather” on jobs we showed previously that the number of people “not at work due to weather” as calculated by the BLS itself. this winter was lower than 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 – so much for historic winter weather).

So what really happened in January?

For the real answer we have to go to the BLS’ non-seasonally adjusted data series. It is here that we find that in January, some 2.870 million real, actual jobs were lost, not gained. Putting this further in perspective, the number of NSA jobs losses in January 2014 was greater than in January of 2013, 2012, 2011 and tied that of 2010. In fact only during the peak of the depression in January 2009 was there a greater NSA drop in the first month of the year when 3.691 million jobs were lost.”

“WaPo Praises The Joy Of Being “Untethered” And “Unleashed” From A Job, The “Freedom” Of Unemployment”

“Now that the full court press to refute the findings of the CBO report which, as we reported, confirmed what was largely known – that as a result of Obamacare, the strapped US economy will have even fewer workers as millions will fall back on welfare state entitlements which make hard work obsolete – has failed, it is time for the propaganda to take a different track: one where not having a job, and in fact losing it due to Obamacare, is hailed as an act of nobility. Sure enough, here comes one of the administration’s favorites, the Bezos Times, with “They quit their jobs, thanks to health-care law” which does largely as its name suggests: highlights just how “enabling” and “liberating” Obamacare is for one’s life, once a person is no longer burdened by something as trivial as a job.

OLD VERSION: ….
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:…
Be responsible for yourself! Don’t expect someone else to support your laziness.

MODERN VERSION …

The Ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the cold winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is foolish and laughs, dances, and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, ABC and even FOX show up to play this up big. They provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the well fed and warm Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with all kinds of food.

America is stunned and enraged by the sharp contrast they see and demand something be done to correct this grave injustice..

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while the Ant has plenty to share?

The well known movie personality, Kermit the Frog appears on the Oprah Show with the starving Grasshopper and everybody cries as they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green” …’

” Occupy the Anthill” is outraged and stages a demonstration in front of the Ant’s house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, “We Shall Overcome”, with flags waving and banners proclaiming the injustice committed against the Grasshoppers by the Ants

Then Rev Al Sharpton’s assistant piously has the group kneel down to pray for the Grasshopper while he “damns the soul of all Ants to hellfire for eternity”.

The Reverend Al, himself, expresses his sorrow that he cannot attend because he has contractual commitments to appear on his MSNBC show for which he is paid over two million dollars a year to complain about the rich Ants that do not care about the poor Grasshoppers. The Right Reverend Al always leaves out the part about the Grasshoppers being lazy and shiftless in his TV ramblings. He manages to paint the Grasshopper as a noble insect worthy of the help of all other insects.

Without any investigation whatsoever, loud mouthed President Obama jumps into the fray and publicly condemns all Ants and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, and the new Pope in Rome, Francis, for all the lowly Grasshopper’s plight

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid, not wanting to lose a chance for free publicity, exclaim loudly, like well trained parrots, in an interview on The View that all Ants have gotten rich off the back of the Grasshoppers, and both call for an immediate huge tax hike on all Ants to make them pay their fair share. The media smells blood and runs with the bait like a shark after a downed chicken.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the last summer.

The Ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the “Government Green Czar” and given to the Grasshopper .

The story ends as we see the Grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the Ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the Ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the Grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The Ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen or herd from again. The Grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of Spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Bug Nation of America collapses bringing the rest of the free Bug World with it plunging the bug world into the dark ages, and the ruthless Spiders now rule with harsh repression with hasn’t been seen since the Egyptian, Tutmose II……

MORAL OF THE MODERN VERSION:
Be careful how you vote in 2014 and 2016. and remember…..

NEVER STEP ON AN ANT FOR THEY ARE BUILDERS, PRODUCTIVE, AND SUCCESSIFUL and they are all Republicans.

If our government can kill a US citizen, with impunity, in a foreign county, they can kill a US citizen, with impunity, within the borders of the United States of America, regardless of what the law may say about it…..

We are living in dangerous times, my friend… much like pre-Nazi Germany of 1933…

And who is to say that Breitbart, Clancy, Stevens, Vince Foster, and many others were not politically exterminated, with impunity, by this lawless cabals that have occupied the White House ?

Bob Strauss……
…………and once again I reiterate “Those who are murdered are murdered because they have done nothing to protect themselves to begin with. As long as there are people like that on earth the murderers will continue to do their thing.

RMinNC,
Many people disregard the importance of a Constitutionally elected government. As it stands now, our government is acting unconstitutionally, because we have a usurper pretending to be President, SCOTUS justices appointed by the usurper, and executive orders being written by a usurper.

The founding fathers required the office holder of the presidency to be a natural born Citizen. As it stands right now, we have a felon, usurper, fraud, killing anyone that gets in his way, doing as he pleases, violating the parts of the Constitution that get in his way, while hiding behind the parts of the Constitution that protects a U.S. Citizen’s rights.

Bob Strauss……
…………and once again I reiterate “Those who are murdered are murdered because they have done nothing to protect themselves to begin with. As long as there are people like that on earth the murderers will continue to do their thing.
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oldsaior81,
It’s kind of like the wild west, if you’re able to protect yourself you have a chance of survival, if you’re not able to protect yourself, you are at the mercy of those who would do you harm. I would choose self protection, because it’s obvious we can’t count on our outlaw government.

We need more Terrorist like this to come forward in Iraq !!!….
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A gang of 21 Iraqi militants accidentally set off their own car bomb as they were making a promotional propaganda video about a would be suicide bomber.

The explosion left all 21 dead and resulted in two dozen arrests at the camp outside Samarra, a Sunni city 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

A gang of 21 Iraqi militants accidentally set off their own car bomb as they were making a promotional propaganda video about a would be suicide bomber. Police say the camp outside Samarra, a Sunni city 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, was in an orchard in the village of al-Jalam

Car bombs are one of the deadliest weapons used by the al-Qaida breakaway groups in Iraq that dominates the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, with coordinated waves of explosions regularly leaving scores dead in Baghdad and elsewhere across the country.

The bombs are sometimes assembled in farm compounds where militants can gather without being spotted, or in car workshops in industrial areas.

The officer said security forces rushed to the area after hearing the sound of the explosion. They arrested 12 wounded suspected militants plus another 10 trying to flee the area.

All officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to media.

Violence has spiked in Iraq since April of last year. Militant groups regularly stage coordinated car bomb attacks in the capital.

Security forces found seven car bombs, several explosive belts and roadside bombs after searching two houses and a garage in the orchard, he said.
———————————————————————————————–But didn’t Obey recently say “We have al-Qaida on the run”?….So much for the accuracy of his reports.

“A federal judge has sentenced a former fundraiser for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to two years in prison.
Raghuveer Nayak had previously pleaded guilty to federal health-care fraud charges. On Monday he apologized before he was sentenced in Chicago federal court, asking the judge to have mercy on him and his family. The 58-year-old Chicago-area businessman faced up to 23 years in prison.”

“The indictment of Nayak is seen as one of the final offshoots of the sweeping federal investigation known as Operation Board Games, which in addition to Blagojevich led to convictions of fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, formerAld. Edward Vrdolyak, Republican power broker William Cellini and others.”

“Nayak’s businesses have over the years needed the approval of state regulators and auditors, and Nayak became a big campaign bundler and contributor, donating more than $779,000 to elected officials including Blagojevich, Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Obama from the late 1990s until his name surfaced in the Blagojevich scandal.”

As I recall the DOJ declined to pursue charges against Holder. The other avenue was a civil proceeding in court since he was also held in civil contempt. I have not heard any more from House members pushing for a hearing to force the release of more documents..

RMinNC | February 10, 2014 at 5:21 pm |
Obey recently said “We have Al-Qaeda on the run”?….So much for the accuracy of his reports.
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I think the usurper meant to say, Al Qaeda is running with him.

I believe Obama is delaying the employer mandate, (for three years by the way………..isn’t there something going on in 2016??), but NOT the individual mandate that “some” in Congress were trying to get delayed back in December.

It appears that the last article I linked suggests that a Judge disallowed the arguement from the DoJ for keeping the documents sealed.

So it appears to me that Congress did take it to a court, and some 1 year and 3 months later we get a ruling stating simply that the DoJ didn’t provide sufficient arguement to keep the documents sealed.

Of course the DoJ isn’t going to turn these documents over. Even if a Judge orders them too, Holder will simply say that he doesn’t respect the Judge, so he doesn’t have to obey the order.

I just hate it that our highest person assigned to uphold our laws, is such an arrogant horses behind who simply goes about as he pleases.

Some of you may have viewed some of your friends’ and families’ “Here’s my Facebook movie” on Facebook. These short videos are Facebook created compilation of photos and comments on their Facebook page. Well Gateway Pundit posted a version of the Obama Facebook movie……..

This Bloomberg Mayors’ club to confiscate guns looks like a RICO, a racketeering organization to deprive US citizens of their 2nd amendment rights, this also looks like 42 USC 1983-1985 violation of civil rights under the color of authority. Typically there is a criminal liability and prison term, if convicted. Write to orly.taitz@hushmail.com, if you were affected. Remember Hitler started with gun registry, which was followed by gun confiscation, which was followed by exterminations in concentration camps. An agreement to deprive citizens of their constitutional Second Amendment rights is a criminal racketeering agreement and a violation of civil rights under the color of authority as well as a criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights under the color of authority. If you were affected by this criminal agreement, write to Attorney Orly Taitz at orly.taitz@hushmail.com. More on cases by Orly Taitz on TaitzReport.com. Taitz is working pro bono. Any donations to this cause are appreciated and can be given via pay-pal on Orltaitzesq.com or by mail at 29839 Santa Margarita, ste 100, Rancho santa Margarita, CA 92688

(by Adan Salazar) – Nearly 50 mayors have jumped ship on former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” campaign over allegations that the group’s ultimate goal is outright gun confiscation, according to one former member.

As reported, Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik published a statement in last week’s Poughkeepsie Journal coming clean about the group’s true intentions, total disarmament of law-abiding gun owners.

“Under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens,” Tkazyik said, confirming what many already suspected about the group.

“Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did,” he also added.

The fact that 50 mayors bailed in response to a concerted effort to undermine the Bill of Rights is certainly headline-worthy, but so far, unsurprisingly, few other media outlets have picked the story up.

And Tkazyik isn’t the first to cast these allegations. In 2007, the mayor of Williamsport, Pa., also said she left after witnessing “dubious” attempts to subvert the Second Amendment. “I have learned that the coalition may be working on issues which conflict with legal gun ownership, and that some actions on your behalf are dubious,” then-Williamsport Mayor Mary Wolf wrote in a letter to Bloomberg himself.

And just last year, during a Mothers Demand Action rally (a gun control coalition which merged with MAIGin December 2013), Austin, Texas City Councilman Mike Martinez singled out a protestor carrying a “Stop the Gun Ban” sign and told him, “…there is no gun ban currently, but because of the work we’re doing here today, we will make your sign legitimate shortly, so you hang on to that.”

News of the group’s traitorous crusade comes at a time when American gun owners are already wary of continual attempts to curtail firearm ownership. Since the Sandy Hook school shooting, the Obama administration has proposed legislation aimed at combating “gun violence,” including proposals that would require background checks for all gun sales; in effect, registration.

American gun owners who know the history behind gun control are fearful that a federal gun registry will eventually lead to confiscation. Indeed, numerous articles have been published showing how, since 2007, roving law enforcement teams have been disarming Californians deemed “illegal” using a list of owners.

However, in the face of blatant evidence, the director of MAIG, Mark Glaze, has boldly gone on to publicly deny that “nobody in California has come to take anyone’s guns.”

The fact that groups like MAIG are to the point of openly bragging about their intentions doesn’t bode well for gun owners. It signifies the establishment is preparing to take grand strides to convince the American public of the “dangers” posed by guns. That means more contrived scenes of violence with guns at their center.

The fact that Obama has repeatedly asserted his willingness to work around Congress to make things happen is also worrying. In his 2014 State of the Union speech he also mentioned that his administration would continue to address “gun violence,” and that he intends to “keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters and our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.”

It should now be abundantly clear that any reassurances, given by known liars such as Obama or any of his anti-Second Amendment teams, are merely to placate gun owners into a state of pacification and complacency. However, the jig is now up and the curtain has been lifted.

Overall, 50 mayors bailing on the group over its future plans shows a definite sea change in the way public servants are regarding citizens’ rights and the Second Amendment. However, it is simply incredible that more mayors, knowing the treasonous goals of the organization, have not abandoned ship.

Obama: ‘That’s the Good Thing as a President, I Can Do Whatever I Want’

By: Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)

President Obama “quipped” today during a visit to Monticello with the French president, “That’s the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want.”

Via the pool report:

At 4:45 POTUS and president Hollande walked out from a portico and strolled in Front of your pool with Leslie Bowman, president of the Monticello Foundation. Looking at a terrace she said that Jefferson loved to admire the landscape from there. POTUS said that he’d like to take a look and seemed delighted to “break the protocol”.

“That’s the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want” he quipped, walking to the terrace with his guest and Ms. Bowman. Pool now in the mansion as the leaders will come and visit Jefferson’s study.

The comment came around the time the White House announced it would be delaying the Obamacare mandate for some businesses unilaterally.

“Don’t Miss It: Special WheresObamasBirthCertificate Show on Monday Night”

“Mike Volin of WheresObamasBirthCertificate.com will be airing a special edition of his radio show featuring the owner of the popular website BirtherReport.com, which was offline on Saturday and is now in the process of migration to a private server.

For tonight’s show, Volin has an extensive lineup of guests well-known in the “birther” community for questioning Obama’s documentation, which has been proven by a criminal investigation to be fraudulent.”

The new AR-15 design did away with the pistol grip which gives the gun an odd paintball gun look. The stock is fixed as well, but at least New Yorkers now have a legal way to own an AR-15, a fact which is still driving some gun control activists mad.